March 11, 2010

Washington, D.C.:Thomas Porteous,federal judge for theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, was impeached by the United States House of Representatives today. Porteous is only the fifteenth judge in U.S. history to beimpeached.^[1]

The House voted unanimously on a resolution that authorized four articles of impeachment against the judge. Porteous was impeached on accepting bribes while as a judge, lying to a bankruptcy judge and failing to comply with a judge's order, along with repeatedly committing perjury to the United States Senate.

Porteous will face a trial in the United States Senate. A two-thirds vote in the Senate is required to convict Porteous, which would warrant his removal from the bench.^[2]

See also

• Federal judges who have been impeached

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